Improving Rank Experience

DISCLAIMER: I don't claim to be nearly as good or better than the average Rank player. However I have enough exp under me that I can tell when someone is new to League and more importantly to Rank in League. In fact, my close friends and I had more than hundred of games in Bots and Blind and then Draft before we even considered playing in Rank.

My story is one of many players whom thrive to rank up in competitive League Rank matches. I have been playing league for over 4 years now, still loving the game to this day. I remember my fellow friends and I first learning of League during a night out at Howie's Game Shack (at that time, we would play co-op Horde in Gears of War for the Xbox). After which it became a competition of who would rank higher out of us, with the rules being simple: Solo Rank only, no help but from the matched teammates. Long story short, only 2 of the 5 of us made it past Bronze into Silver; and that is where we remained from season 4 to today. In fact, I personally have been placed back in bronze every season and promoted myself back to silver a total of 5 times now.

Now I don't know about any of you personally, but with hundred of games under my belt I found it really frustrating to be stuck at Bronze/Silver while new players with little to no rank exp got placed Silver/Gold after their first Series completion. In fact, to this day I am baffled by the amount of opponents whom I defeat soundly that are Ranked higher than me while having little to no exp in Rank. Meanwhile a large portion of my losses come from players with little to no exp in Rank, whom feed recklessly and or rage quit after loosing their lanes, making the team loss inevitable and painfully slow.

It is my personal opinion that these "New Rank Players" contribute negatively in the long run to the growth of the community. All I'm asking of Riot, is to consider placing lane and champ exp as a requirement before being able to join Rank matches. It is difficult to gauge the minimum exp required to play Rank, but at the very least I would prefer if all Rank Players know 1 to 2 champs per lane( I would say 25 games per lane in Draft is a reasonable goal to achieve). This alone would reduce the amount of frustration from teammates tolerating a player who 1st time plays a champ or lane. In fact, I can only see the requirement as a means to give Rank the needed prestige to consider it a "Competitive Sport" in the community.

Much Thanks in Advance for any feedback and or comments, Knight Orochi